#by /u/Wout716

[prorevenge]

Scam us for €250.000? We will ruin your life!

Disclaimer: I am fairly new to reddit in general so please keep that in mind when reading this. It may also seem like I am bragging in this story at times, but this is not the intent and it is all important information. Also, English is not my first language.

So this is a story that my mother and father recently told me about and I thought I should post it here. I was between the ages of 6 an 10 at the time so this is their version of the events. This story turned out to be longer than I planned so buckle up.

Scammer: SC

Two years later the house is finished, my family moves in and we start to socialize with the neighbours. A few parties were thrown because the street was now finished with the project of building all the houses and everybody wanted to meet their new neigbours. At one of these parties the topic of construction comes up. Most people didn't encounter big problems, but one neighbour complained about how he had to move his house because the plot he was given was smaller than the plot indicated in the contract he signed and how it had cost him a lot of money. Other neighbours then looked surprised and said they also received less land than indicated in the contract. It turned out SC had pulled the same trick with EVERYONE in the street, giving them exactly 20 square meters less. As there were 25 plots in the streets, this meant the amount he stole was €250.000. Everybody in the street was livid when they realized this. So the entire street decided to get back at him.

This is where the fun begins

Did I mention that this was a small town? Well, that meant almost everybody knew each other and that nothing exciting happened normally. A new street being finished was thus a daily topic for at least the next 2 months. So everybody in my street started talking about their new houses, and would occasionally drop the fact about how SC had practically stolen a lot of money from them and their neighbours. This of course was told over and over again until the entire village knew these allegations, and being a small town, juicy rumours like this last for what seems like forever. SC knew this, so he contacted pretty much everybody living in our street, begging us to stop talking about it, threatening us with legal action, etc. He never offered to give the money back though. Not that it would have mattered, everybody had already cut their losses and just wanted revenge at this point. So, SC was avoided on the street (he also lived in town), lost many clients and money, etc., although he still made enough money to live in the town.

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But the big blow had yet to come

The town council and mayor were quite satisfied with the fact that the plots of land were sold so quickly, and that the houses that were build looked so beautiful. They decided to make another plot of land available for another 3 streets with 70+ plots of land in total. Needless to say, every real estate agent from the surrounding area wanted to be the one to broker these plots. Initially, SC was the one who was appointed to do this. However, many people in the community reached out to the council and mayor, telling them to please reconsider their choice of appointing SC. The council and the mayor were sceptical at first, because they didn't know whether these rumours were true or not and they trusted SC, as the last project went so well. However, a few neighbours had friends who were members of the town council and they confirmed the rumours to be true. This eventually meant that SC was removed from the project. Being removed from such a big project was a huge red flag for everyone looking for a real estate agent, so eventually he stopped receiving new clients. 2 years after we had moved in he had moved out of town because of debts. His wife had also divorced him and he lost the custody battle of their daugther.

(source) story by (/u/Wout716)